New Vegitarian w/carnivorous mate???!

Question:

New Vegitarian w/carnivorous mate???

Hi...I stopped eating meat a few weeks ago. Already I feel better & lighter! My question is, my live-in boyfriend eats meat...in fact to him it's not a meal w/out meat. Any recipes or ideas in which meat can just be added, not cooked into a meal (ie, we made pasta, and he cooked his meat on the side, the added it just to his plate)? Thanks!

Answers:

We do a lot of this at my house... I eat fish, but no other meats, and sometimes my daughter and husband like to have some meat with their dinners.

Chili is great - make the pot without meat and brown ground beef or turkey that he can add to his. Tacos and build your own burritos work the same way. Pizza can be halved, sandwiches can be made to order. Pretty much any casserole can be made without meat - and the meat can be added only to his part.

Just a few ideas for you! Good luck!

Salad, he can put bacon bits or little pieces of ham in his.
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This one isn't exactly with meat on the side but it's good for everyone. My mom made Stuffed Bell Pepers the other day but instead of using hamburger she used some Boca burgers we had and nobody in my house knew any different. Or you could make half with hamburger for him and half with boca for you if he doesn't like Boca. I say...just try it out with Boca burgers instead of hamburger and DON'T TELL HIM...see what he thinks. If he doesn't like it...he can make himself something and next time you can do the half and half thing.

Smoked Fish

just keep a piece of meat or chicken handy to throw on the grill to go along with whatever you're eating. Or....try making some things with crumbled soy that you'd usually use meat for (meatballs, chillie, meat pasta sauce....) and I bet he'll barley notice the diiference.

It is a great idea to keep cubed, cooked pieces of chicken and also shrimp around; both of these go with many different types of food (quesadillas, fajitas, soups, pastas, salads, lo mein, etc) and can be added to your vegetarian versions of things. Don't forget to find vegetarian sources of protein to add to your part of the meal as well. I'm a vegetarian, but I hate tofu so I eat lots of lentils, beans (soups, hummus), rice and nuts.

have a summer BBQ outside! Form 1 or 2 hamburger patties for him, and open your box of gardenburgers! You can eat all the same sides, buns, katsup, etc! THat's an easy meal. You can even fry your burgers on one side of the grill, and his on the other side, so yours doesn't get in the fat from the beef.

Pizza. Make a huge one. On one half, put veggies and cheese, put pepperoni on the other half! Eat all the same sides. If he likes pepperoni, that's the best meat to use for pizza, cuz it's easy to pick off (if a piece gets on your side)

Cook him his steak and nuke (microwave) yourself some veggie chicken nuggets. You can eat the same potatoes, salad, etc..

Make him some easy fried chicken or shake N Bake. Again, Nuke yoruself some veggie chick-nuggets, and eat all the same sides.

THose are just a few ideas off the top of my head.

Well, you've already gotten some great choices. One thing I've noticed too, is that sometimes my omnivorous husband actually prefers the veggie alternative. When I make blackbeans and rice, he loves it. He's also a fan of my veggie lasagna. So, if you start perfecting some veggie recipes, he might prefer that to a meat alternative. I wouldn't suggest just giving him boca peppers and not telling him, because that's dishonest, if they really are good, let him have a bite and if he likes it make them al Bocca next time. No matter what, it's your boyfriend's choice.

Just use meat subsitutes like Quorn or Boca. He won't miss a thing. =)

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New Vegitarian w/carnivorous mate???!

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